TOWONG SHIRE COUNCIL MEETING DATES FOR 1914. Under the arrangement by which the Towong Shire Council moots on the Monday of or tho Monday prior to the hnppnuiit^ of tho full moon, the rlntex of Counuil meetings during the year 1914 will be us follow : — April 0. M»y24. Juno 8. July 6. August 3 and 31. Soptember 28. October, nil. November 2 and 30. December 28.

^Iiif 3|ei[altl. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1914. Al Inst nienting of Huuie Shire Coun cil, William Edward tendered his resig nation h8 ferryman .at Wymah as from 1st April. The resignation was accepted, and it was decided that applications be called for two men to attend to the dutios. Wise man ! Mr. P. J. Moloney, ex lias tioon reluctantly compelled to inform the Secretary of the District Council that he will not be able to offer himself for selection again. Mr. Mol oney's medical adviser has cautioned him against another such contest as the lost. Mr. Moloney is now in the com mission agency business with:his brother in one of the Melbourne suburbs. A meeting of thoTattcngulta Athonoum committoo was held on Thursday . Present —Messrs. O'Luary (president), Morant, Elston, Maddock, Grant, Pearse and Osmotherly (him., sec.); Mosdames Law, Simpson, lirady, Kelly, Miss Harkley. The resignation of Mr. J. M. Simpson was received with regret, and it was agreod to notify subscribers of the vacanc...

HINTS TO FRIENDLY READERS. You want to see the local paper a suc cessful institution. Talk about, it wherever you go. Mention it to the tradespeople witlh whom you do business. If they don't advertise in it, try and induce them to do so. If you are induced to buy anything from what you have read in its adver tising columns, mention the fact to the. tradesman. Don't lend your paper to any person who can afford to become a subscriber, but is too mean to support local enters prise.

DON'T "ROOK" THE PRINTER. An advertisement is a paper man's-, marketable commodity, and it is quite as much so as a side of bacon, a pound of butter, or a ton of flour. No man can afford to give away the things he seils for a livelihood, and the man who does so in order to get business is generally in a bad way. Don't try to put the paper man "in a bad way." But exercise a little human natum. Support him; he needs encouragement and support; but do it in the legitimate way. If the printer gets a few pounds' worth of printing orders from you, he is not in a position to give you a pound's worth of advertising for nothing. And you have had value for the printing already. Go into a grocer's or draper's for £3 worth of goods, and the grocer's man or draper will not throw in gratis; £1 worth of something else that youi may ask for. Try him, if you don't believe us.

ADVERTISE AND PROSPER, i SIXTEEN GOOD REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD ADVERTISE. 1.—Money invested in Judicious ad vertising ia like a boomerang—It is bound to come back again with redoubled power. 2.—The most results don't come from the most expenditure. They come from the most intelligent ex penditure. 3.—Advertise for Business; then ad vertise to make it better; then advertise to keep it. 4.—Sit still, and your business will sit still too. 5.—Advertising is not a necessity, neither is the telephone, nor the telegraph, nor the train; but they are mighty convenient wlieu you want to get there quick . 6.—There is no trade so settled but a vigorous competitor may take it away by advertising. 7.—One or two insertions of an ad vertisement seldom pay. It if! the consecutive, continuous, per sistent efforts that win in ad vertising, as in the affairs of business. 8.—Advertise as you eat; regularly, and in reasonable quantity. 9.—Advertise just as a farmer plants coin, not a big sackful at one tim...

UPPER MURRAY AND MITTA. HERALD. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:. SUBSCRIBERS can stop their papers only at the end of a quarter.. Orders for discontinuing "The Herald"• must be in writing. No notice will he taken of instructions! to discontinue the paper unless all moneys due for subscriptions accom-. pany the order. JAMES J. LAW, , Propriatwv ,

PAYMENT BY CHEQUE. At tho Federated Mine Employ&amp;t' Confer ence at Daylesford lust week, the Bendigo branch protested against tho praotice of miners being paid with cheques—a oustom that prevails more especially in Gippsland. Miners often find it vory difficult to cash chcques. It was resolved to endeavor to have all wages paid in cash fortnightly. There is no doubt that it is difficult to get cheques cashed in many country towns on Saturday nights, when the Associated Banks are all closed. Probably one of these duys iniuing companies will raako provision for their cheques to be cashed by tho Savings Banks, which are open on Saturday nights, but only for the' receipt of deposits. Busi ness nieu who take the risk of cashing min ing compiimo.i' cheques frequently and not improperly make a small uhurgoiurduijijjso.

ADVERTISING PAYS. Business Man—"You remember that 'ad.' I had in your paper, and took out two months ago? Well, I want to have it put back again." Editor— "Why, I thought you said no one noticed it ■while it was in." Business Man (humbly)—"They didn't seem to until I took it out." The mere fact of your advertising lets people know you are still in business; also that your business is sufficiently important to ;tand advertising. If you are in busi ness, you cannot afford to do without advertising, as it is too much of an ad* mission to the world at large.—Extract from an interview with a man who has profited by newspaper advertising. A millionaire business man has placed on record this beautiful simile: —"You might as well try to shampoo an elephant with a thimbleful of soap suds aa attempt to do business and ignore advertising."

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The Panorama of the Past. "Speaking of falls," said Brown it bis club, "I once fell from a window, and -the sensation was a terrible one. During my transit I believe I thought of every bad action I ever committed." "Ah," said a good-natured friend, "what a height that window must have been!" To the woman who wishes to m&amp;tab faer path through life an easy and agreeable one, the science of smiling Is a most necessary study. It is a thing in which only practice can make one perfect. A little theory may go a long way. but it ia enough to remem ber these t.-sfo rules—first, the honey Of a smile catches more hearts thau Uie vinegar of a frown or the pepper of a Niieer: second, it is not the me chanical brainy but th«» significant of the smil'i 'iiI't m:ikes h attractive.

SARAH BERNHARDT HONORED RECEIVES CROSS OF LEGION I was one of many who went to con gratulate Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who has at last received the Cross of the Legion of Honor (says the Paris correspondent of "The Daily Tele graph"). 1 brought her the con gratulations of "The Daily Telegraph,*' and of the immense circle of her Brit ish admirers, and she said that among the innumerable messages she had re ceived she appreciated none more. ' So sympathetic you English are, and al ways have been—always so kind to me. ! I am very much touched. Please, con vey my deepest thanks. All these kind attentions to-day overwhelm me. I | am much moved." And the great : actress really did seem more moved than I have seen her on the stage. It was a family luncheon party that I interrupted, in the house on the Boulevard Perelre, where Madame Sarah—as all her friends call her— has lived for many years. The house is full of mementoes of her long and illustrious career all over the world, and contains a...

Not Wisdom While You Wait. "A girl shouldn't marry a man till she knows all about him," remarked an aunt to a niece who had just ac cepted a proposal. "Good gracious!" exclaimed the young lady. "If she knew all about him she wouldn't want to marry him!"

DOOMED ISLAND SAKURASHIMA AND ITS VOLCANO Sakurashima, the small Island in the South of Japan which has been devas tated by a volcanic outburst, is situated In the Gulf of Kago shlma, opposite the city of the same name, says the editor of "The Japan Chronicle" in an interesting article in "The Manchester Guardian." The island is 24 miles In circumfercnce, and the crater of the volcano at the summit Is 3500ft. above sea-level. Ac cording to Japanese tradition, the island was produced by an upheaval of the earth's crust in the year 7D6. However that may be, the volcano was within historic times very active, though for more than a hundred years now it h;is been quiescent. There is no recorded case, moreover, of a vol canic outburst of Sakurashima equal to the present in tho extent and com pleteness of the disaster. The volcano most feared in this region is that of Kirishima, higher up the bay, which can still be seen smok ing on most days of the year, and is occasionally responsible fo...